Emotions

Synonyms for terrified

The synonym for terrified recorded in this bank is frightened, in the sense "thrown into a state of intense fear or desperation". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 2, Treeline · 1 sense · adjective

The synonym for terrified

frightenedadjective, in the sense "thrown into a state of intense fear or desperation"

One pair, read and signed off by a human before it shipped. The bank records a synonym per sense, so a second one appears here the day terrified is audited in a second meaning.

The senseadjectiveTier 2, TreelineEmotions

thrown into a state of intense fear or desperation

The terrified horse bolted.

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The true synonym

frightened

Same sentence, swapped: The frightened horse bolted.

Close but different

These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where terrified stands in the sentence above.

frozen
paralyzed
stunned

Where terrified turns up in the game

terrified is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. Nothing on it is written while the page is built.

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